Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 November 1908 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE.

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS a CO., - - Publishers 1908 NOVEMBER 1908

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T P. g.iisP. M. T U Q. N. M. jy 1st vSyfith. Vj 15th. r23rd. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telccraphtc Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Six Men Meet Death in Mine. Six men were instantly killed and another dangerously injured and three others had narrow escapes from injury or death In a mine cage accident at Ellsworth Mine No. 1, located In Washington County, Pennsylvania. The mine Is owned by the Ellsworth Coal Company. The three engineers, who had been employed by the company several years, had just completed a survey of the mine preparatory to starting new entries, the six foreigners having assisted them. A heavy wooden beam was loaded into the cage and its ends projected beyond the sids, the men riding on the timber. All went well until within seventy-five feet of the top of the shaft the projecting beam struck one of the planks of the shaft's cribbing displaced by expansion due to the cold and most of the men were dumped out of the cage. The six fell to the bottom, a distance of 225 feet, and the heavy timber fell on top of them. i3ig Fire at Indiana Reformatory.. Five buildings of the Indiana State Reformatory and nearly the entire plant of the Indiana Manufacturing Company at JeffersonvIHe, Ind., were destroyed by fire? The loss will total about $250,000. There were no fatalities, the 1,300 inmates of the Reformatory remaining locked in their cells, a portion of them sending cheer after cheer through the grated' windows as . they' watched the work of the firemen. When the fire wa3 first discovered in the Reformatory the fire department of the Institution was quickly put to work but in a short time the water plant failed and the JeffersonvIHe department was summoned. By the time It arrived, however, the flame3 had gained such headway that Louisville. Ky.t was called upon for help, responding In a short time. 'After destroying five buildings the fire spread westward to the plant of the Indiana Manufacturing Company, dsroying three bnildings and entailing a loss of $100,000 to that concern. Aged Woman Asks Divorce. In the Wayne Circuit Court at Richmond, Ind., the case of Mary K'.stro against Christopher Elstro for divorce and alimony was called for trial.. The care is unusual. Mr. and Mrs. Elstro have been married forty-six years and each is 63 years of age. The wife charges cruel treatment, saying that her husband called her name3. The defendant entered a general denial. The children of the aged couple have divided, some of them standing with the mother, others with their father. The family Is one of the best known in Richmond. Mrs. Elstro asks a reasonable sum for alimony. Cleveland Blaze Causes $200,005 Fire. The five-story building occupied by the F. M. Klrby Company, five and ten cent store and the M. Phillips Boru Company, ladies' sult3 and cloaks, on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was completely gutted by fire. The store occupied by J. Wageman & Sons, clothie:s, was flooded by water, and the costly decorations In the twelveStory bank building of the Guardian Trust Company, were damaged by smoke. Loss $200.000; insured. Two firemen were Injured. Burglars Shoot Village Marshal. John Tripp, marshal of North LewIsbunj, Ohio, surprised three burglars at work in the postoffice at that place. Single-handed he undertook their capture, but they escaped, leaving him hot in the knee. Ho was taken to a hospital at Marysville. A buggy belonging to Dick Curl, In which the burglars escaped, was found at Urbana. Blooöhounds from Cardington have been brought to aid the searchers. Night Riders Burn Tobacco. A large barn containing 3,000 pounds of tobacco belonging to Harvey Montgomery was burned at Boonville, Ind. sdSight riders are supposed to have don the work. . $150,000 Fire at Cairo. Fire destroyed Winter Brothers ice factory and the packinghouse of Nelson Morris & Co. at Cairo, 111. The wholesale produce house of Cotter Brothers was partly burned. Loss $130,000. i Morris Haas Commits Suicide. Monis Haas, who shot Francis J. Heney at San Francisco, Cal., committed suicide at the County Jail by shcot ins himself through the head. Pa.bies Cses from Terre Haute. Twenty-hve patients from Terre Haute, Ind., are under treatment for rabies at the la.si'ur institute in Chicago, more cases are expected and business in the Indiana municipality is demoralized. Sears Girl's race with Acid. Gertrude Huff, 2( years eld, is the victim of a bold attack by an unidentified man vho dashed a vial of carbolic acid in het" face as ehe was walking out of the yard at her home in Ciicinuati, Ohio. Slic probably will be disfigured for life. Neither Miss Huff nor her parents could assign a motive for the act. Has New Divorco Law. The new divorce law, increasing th period of residence from six months to one year, was carried on Nov. 3 in South Dakota by a vote of two to one, according to unofiieial figures. Benton Harbor Stores Burn. - Fir Friday threatened the destruction of the business district of Benton Harbor, Mica., and did damage estimated at about $123,000. The blaze started in. the feed store of H. 1. Boehin and spread to the four-story Morrill & Horley building. Both were destroyed, together with the pw livery barn and a residence.

NEW MURDER FARM FOUND.

nich Fnrmer 1'mlcr Arrest n Slayer and Horse Thief. Iu the belief that many bodies will be found buried on a farm near Marengo, III., Mid that a series of um rtlers similar to those in the Cunucss rase may be brought to light, the sheriff of Mellen ry county and a force of workman have bepnn to dig up the chicken lot of John Betford. a wealthy farmer, in the search for further evidence agniust the man. who is under arrest. The body of Oscar IIoganson, a wealthy farmer whose estate adjoined that of Betford and who disappeared two weeks a so, has already been tins up in the poultry yard. John Belmont. another farmer, aud an unidentified farm hand employed on the Iletford place have disappeared. It is the theory of the police that they were murdered and buried on the farm. William Evans, who lives nt Marengo, spent the night at the farm a short time before the disappearance of Betford, who has been arrested in Nebraska. He charges that while at the farm he was assaulted and robbed and had to fight for hU life. Betford has been arrested at the home of relatives in Beatrice, Neb. Requisition papers for his return to Illinois for trial for murder have been obtained and a deputy sheriff is in the western city to bring him back. SIX SMUGGLED CHINESE DEAD. Oriental. Perlah a Motor Doat front Canndn lllt.i Iiaffalo Sea Wall. A motor boat containing .ten Chinamen and three white men was wrecked on the breakwater off the foot of Michigan street, Buffalo. Six of the Chinamen were drowned or dashed to death against the rock-ribbed sea wall. The four survivors were rescued by the crew of a iolice boat. The three white men escaped and the federal authorities and local detective force are scouring the city endeavoring to round up men suspected of being engaged in the smuggling of Chinamen into "this country from Canada. How the white men got to shore was the subject of a searching investigation. The statement of an elevator watchman that a second motor boat left the shore side of the breakwater just before dawn is a clew upon which the authorities arc now working and which may lead to arrests. One of the Chinamen left Toronto a week ago and had been lodged in a barn on the Canadian side of the lake opposite liuffalo awaiting a favorable opportunity to make a landing in the United States. CLEVELAND LINE OF RECEIVERS Warren Dlcknelt and Frank A. Scott to Run City' Traction Synteni. Judge Tayler of the Federal Court in Cleveland eppointed Warren Bickncll and Frank A. Scott as joint receivers for the Muuiripai Traction Company and the Cleveland Railway Company. Each of the receivers will furnish a bond of $100,OOO. Warren Picknell is one of the lest known electric railway builders and operators in the country. He is president of the Havana Electric Railway, which controls all the street railways in Havana, Cuba, and is identified with several traction companies in Ohio and .other States. Frank A. Scott is secretary and treasurer of the Superior Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland. The receivers will take charge of the traction system at once, and will operate it under the direct supervision of the court. The rate of fare, it is said, will be as low as can be made consistent with good service. PAY FIREBUG FOR IMMUNITY: Renldentn of Graniteville, X. Y., I'nnanal Victim, Sayn Police. When Robert Thompson of Graniteville, N. C, was arraigned on a charge of arson a confession signed by Thompson was submitted to the court. The police learned that Thompson was. in receipt of weekly payments from the tradespeople of Graniteville of sums ranging from $1 to $2, which they paid him to leave their place alone. lie had unlimited credit in thi stores and saloons, it was said, because the people feared him. Over fifty residents of Graniteville were in court and requested the magistrate not to permit Thompson to go free, ven on bail. He was sent to jail. CALLS SESSION OF UNEMPLOYED Jinr ICad Hair Announ c Aalian nl Convention In St. I-ouls. James Eads How, heir of Millionaire James It. I!aJs; who built the L?tul bridge at St. Ixmis aud the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi, on his return the other night from the Kast, where he has been in the interest of the unemployed, announced that a national convention of the "casual workers and unemployed" has been called to moet in St. Iouis early in January to take steps to provide ways and means to meet the conditions of what promises to be a severe winter. He was given a great reception at Welfare Hall Held for Marder of Carmaek. John I). Sharpe cx-sheritT of Davidson county, was arrested an.l lodged in jail at Nashville, Tenn., charged with murder and aiding and abetting in the murder of ex-Senator K. W. Carmaek. - It is al leged that he was seen with the two Coopers shortly before the killing and was also at the scene of the tragedy immedi ately after Carmaek fell to the ground. 4339 Die In German Mine. Three hundred and eighty miners were cut off at the Radbod mine, three miles from Hamm, Vestphalia. Germany, by explosion and lire, and 330 of them perished. Three hundred and two bodies are still in the "mine and it is believed they will be consumed in the fire. Fire Sweeps Tannery. The tannery of the American Hide and Leather Company was Imdly damaged by fire in Ballston, N. Y., causing a Tosh estimated at $.",000. The tannery has a capacity of 2jOOO sides of leather a day and employs 500 men. Dakota End Quick Divorce. Thi new divorce law, increasing the period of residence from six months to one year, was carried on Nov. 3 in South Dakota by a vote of two to one, according to unofficial figures. Secretary Mctcnlf to Quit. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf has re signed to take effect Dec. 1, and will be succeeded by Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, his assistant, says a well-known Washington correspondent. (iomri and Zaya KIcctcd. Gomez and Zayas, Liberal candidates. won the Cuban elections by a plurality of at least 25,000 and street rioting following the victory was suppressed by po lios. Thieve Get $18,000. Within a few feet of clerks and guards thieves drilled the safe in the South Bend (lud.) post office and took $18,000 in ataJDps. Hist Flro In Denton Harbor. Fire Friday threatened the destruction of the business district of Benton liar bor, Mich., and did damage estimated at about $123,000. The blaze started in the feed store of II. P. Boehm and spread to the four-story Morrill & Horley building, Both were destroyed, together with the Haas livery barn and a residence. Sneak for Itcvenne Tar I IT. Andrew Carnegie in & magazine article will aovocate a tariff for revenue only instead of one for protection, but will urge a retention of high duties on luxuries for the rich.

MICHIGAN TO FIGHT FOR LAND.

DiMpnte with Wisconsin Over Hound nr to Go to Federal Court. Has the State of Wisconsin been In undisputed possession for fifty years of a portion of the territory belonging to the, State of Michigan? And if so. what is the State of Michigan going to do about tV There are possibilities of a striking asp- t in the situation presented by thinquiry. If Michigan has been deprive! of a portion of valuable territory through he error of a surveyor, aud the error can be established, will the courts disturb the oundary line between two sovereign States? This is the question that is likey to reach the Sup.vme Court of the United States, and it constitutes a hard nut for that tribunal to crack. Two years ago, largely through the interest taken in the matter by the late Beter White of Marquette, the attention of the Michigan egislature was called to the fact that the government surveyor in 1841 did not follow the instructions of Congress, and that if he had done so a strip of territory now assumed to be a part of Wisconsin would constitute a portion of the upper peninsula of Michigan. This strip comprises about seventy square miles, and if the contention of' the State of Michigan is correct the city of Hurley, Wis., and some of the iron mines south of the town should be included in territory belonging to Michigan. Attorney General John K. Bird has had made a survey by Brof. J. B Davis of the Michigan university, and will reiort the result of that survey to the Legislature when it convenes ill January. It is understood that the State of Wisconsin, learning that in the new Michi gan constitution an alteration has been made in the description of the State's boundaries, is taking steps to defend its title to the territory involved, threatening the most vigorous opposition. FIFTEEN OPERATIONS IN A YEAR I'ntlcnt It open Xext Amputation, ov Impending, "Will He Fatal. Only 38 years old, but with hair as white as snow, with a record of baring undergone fifteen operations within a year and now awaiting another series, Wil liam Smith is at St. Vincent's hospital, West New Iln'shton, S'taten Island. He ia.s been operated on for appendicitis, stomach trouble and an intestinal comlaint, has suffered amputation of his right foot, then of his right leg and now faces the prospect of having his left leg taken off at the knee. Smith is suffering with tuberculosis of the bone, lie is in ain and remarked to an interviewer: "I cauuot even pray, for when I kneel I faM over. I hope I die when they are taking off my other leg, for if I live through that I will only have to prepare for more cutting." Smith was formerly a homeless wanderer, Physicians declare that he has shown remarkable vitality iu view of his past life. SHOT, DRINKS OWN BLOOD. M. McUonongh, Mistaken by Coach man, In Attacked a a Dura-lar. Kept alive and given strength by drink ing his own blood which oozed from a bullet wound in his forehead and trickled down into his mouth, Martin McDonöugh iii a St. Paul, Minn., hospital told how he had been mistaken for a burglar when alout to enter the honse'of C. A. Stickney by mistake, was shot by a negro coach man, was deserted by his two companions antTthen walked six miles to Mendota to secure medical aid. Physicians say that f McDonough had not drank his own blood he would, not have lived. Although he has a bullet lodged in the back of his head, be was able to walk around his room and the physicians say he will recover. FALL KILLS YOUNG WATTERSON Son of Edltor Drop Xln Storle from Xevr York Dulldlnjr. Harvey W. Watterson, younger son of Col. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was instantly killed by a fall from a window in his law offices on the nineteenth floor of the Trust Company of America building in New York. It was from one of the side windows overlooking the United Siato Trust Company building that he fell and his body landed on the roof of the building, nine stories below. The impact broke nearly every bone in his body. The death was undoubtedly accidental. Watterson's bauds slipped as he was endeavoring to close the window and he fell forward with such force that he was unable to hold the win dow. TAX I CAB BLOWN UP BY GIRL. Leavri Infernal Machine Inilcle and Elude i Driver. The explosion of wh?t is supposed to have been a dynamite bomb in a taxicab in front of the frand Central station on Forty-Second street. New York, created excitement in the vicinity about midnight. The cab was wrecked, but no one was hurt. The machine was hired by a young woman in front of a Broadway restaurant, and she is supiosed to have left the bomb in the cab. The driver had follow ed her to return her change, but she eluded hiin. Heath of Chlnee Emperor. The Bmperor of China was reported dead at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. It was impossible, however, to obtain official confirmation of this announcement. His majesty was transferred to the death chamber at 2 o'clock. At that hour he was still breathing. Two imperial edicts were issued from- the palace in quick suc cession. The first makes Prince Chun regent of the empire and the second ap points his son, Pu Wei, heir presumptive, Find Three Itlvera In Alaska. Fragst Leffingwell, geologist and explorer, who was with Ejnar Mikkelsen on the expedition i. the arctic in the schooner Duchess of Bedford, which was wrecked in 11)07, arrived at Kan Fran cisco Saturday from Point Barrow on the whaling vessel Narwhal. Leffingwell is said to have discovered and mapped out three rivers In the extreme northern part of Alaska emptying into the Arctic ocean. Land Grabber Medina Jail Term. Perry A. Yeast, a prominent ranchman of Hyannis, Grant county, Neb., was taken to the Hall county jail at (2 rand Island to begin his three mouths' term of imprisonment for complicity in land frauds in Banner and one or two other western Nebraska counties Wednesday.. It elect Training Station Bids. AH bids for constructing officers' quarters and other buildings at the great jakes naval training station at North Chicago, have been rejected. The prices nampd were too high and new proposals will be invited under modified pla,ns. F. J. Heney Shot Down. Francis J. Heney, prosecutor of grafters, was shot and desperately wounded in court in San Francisco during the third trial of Abe Kuef for boodling, an ex convict who had been rejected as a juror, firing. Dovraarer Empre la Gone. The Dowaser Empress of China di ed within twenty-four hours of the announce ment of the death of tüie LmiKror, the new Emperor has been given the throne, and Prince Chun assumed his duties as regent. Court mourning for thr years has been proclaimed. Kill Himself In Cell. Morris Haas, who shot Francis J. Heney iu court in San Francisco, committed suicide in his cell with a pisto! secured mysteriously. The wounded prosecutor will recover, and prominent attorneys have taken up his work without fee.

EIGHT ARE SLAIN BY

n Minr,! it Murderer, at Bay with Rifle, Defies Mob Until He Is Shot Down. DIES IN BURNING FORTRESS. Militia Is Called Out to Quell Threatened Outbreak in Town of Okmulgee. Eight ix-rsons were killed in a race riot at Okmulgee, Ok., Sunday evenin?, which started when an Indian and a nesro fought. In attempting to capture the negro seven men were killed, including the sheriff and assistant chief of olicot and none wore wounded. The desperado was the eighth victim. lcing riddled with bullets when fleelns from bis burning house. More than 1,:C0 shots were fired in the melee, hardware stores leinj looted by the mob to secure weaions, aud at night armed citizens patrolled the town. Gov. Haskell ordered ten companies of militia to Okmulgee on the authorities' request. Charles Deckart, a negro, and Steve Grayson, an Indian, bad a (tight in the deiMt. iu which the Indian was badly used up. He went to police headquar ters ami made complaint. Assistant Chief of Police Henry KlabWr started out to find Deckart and on his way de p utized two negroes, Half and Felix Chatnian, to assist him in capturing Deckart. When the oflicers came up to him Deckart oiened tire on them and killed the Chatmaus and KlablKT in stantly. At this juncture Sheriff Kobinson and another negro canie on tbo scene and tried to arrest Deckart. Before the negro could be captured he killed both. It nr ii cd Ont of llouke. Deckart thni ran to his house near by. Immediately a posse of men sur rounded the next house, thin-king he was there, and set fire to It. Seeing that his own house would soon ltd ablaze, Deckart fired his own house, and when It had burned so that he could not stay in it longer, made a rush for the door. As he emerged a hundred shots were fired at him and he fell dead. The greatest excitement prevailed in the town and it Is feaYed that fur ther serious trouble would follow. The mob poured volley after volley into the burning building and half a score of bj'stamlers and members of the mob were struck by stray bullets and more or less seriously injured. The Muyor and county authorities swore in almost a hundred deputy marshals and sheriffs in an effort to hold the situation in check m til the arrival of the militia. j Maladjuatmer f and Depravity. Edward T. Define, editor of Charities, in the current number of that magazine again raises the question whether the mam cause for dependence and privation in America is maladjustment rather than personal depravity. He says he has no disposition to idealize the poor or to permit sentimentality to usurp the place of reason and common sense when he dial lenges the traditional attitude of those who assume person?.! fault or shortcomin a an explanation for need, and who sigh over the improvidence, perversity and ig uorance of the poor. According to this conscientious expert and leader of organized charity,- the truth is that industrial accidents, sickness, widowhood, orphanage, insufficient food and unsanitary dwellings are fundamental causes of dependence. He finds it true that muuy dependent families would be self-supjort-ing in another locnfcy, and that others would be except, for irregularity of employment, for which they are not respousiblo, and that others would bo self-sup-Iortiiig if in youth they bad had different education and environment. All of these illustrations point to maladjustment rather than to personal fault, and hence Dr. Devine says: "It behooves charitable agencies to'veigh thoughtfully the probability at least that herein lies the more important irt of their problem." Attack on County Fair. President Hyde of Ilowdoin college, I'.runswick, Me., in a, notable address to the student body severely arraigned the laws of Maine forpermitting the organization of corporations which allow fraud and stealing and denounced the shoddy vices and swindles which flourish at miny of the county fairs. Said Hyde: "The worst vice of the American people is the desire to get something for nothing. Maine has the disease as badiy as Oklahoma or Nevada. This State receives thousands of dollars a year from all over the country for organizing corporations under laws that were drafted in the interest of thieves to make wholesale stealing easy.". He then referred to the local county fair, at which numerous low ud swindling side shows were run, and ooinpared it with the country fairs in Switzerland. He asked: "Why do the Maine farmers allow themselves and their families to be insulted by the presence of these low fakers at their agricultural fai.s?" Gompem Ileflne the IJoycolt. In the November McClure's President Compers of the American Federation of I-abor says that the boycott is a perfectly natural and normal human activity, and hat a such no law can ever stop it. He declares that every one conducts a boycott who expresses an opinion against patronizing any merchant. The toycott, he says, Is like the blockade, neither exist unless it is effective. The boycott is a weapon of labor unionism, and the blacklistjs'thc same weapon under a different name, in the hands of employers. .Summing up the foreign missionary work of 100 years done by all churches of Christianity,' Finis Idleman of Des Moines, Iowa, speaking before the international missionary convention of the Churches of Christ, in New Orleans, said : "We crown a hundred years with one million and a quarter of converts on heathen soil, and with five nrllion adherents. There are 4,000 ' missionary stations, with 10,000 organized churches. There are 8.0OO ltible schools and a million and a half of pupils; T0.000 native ordained preachers tell their story in the language where they were born." For participating in games with the Logan Square independent club in Chicago, which is in violation of the rules of the national baseb?.! commission, nine players of the Chicago American Ingue club have been placed on the ineligible list. The Chicago National League ball club has been found guilty of "farming" a ball player and fined $250 by the national baseball commission. The Packey McFarland-Tommy Murphy go is on this time for certain, as both men have posted weight and appearance forfeits large enough to act as a purse.

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CHINA'S WOMAN RULER DIES.

Closing of Wonderful Political Career of Aged Dowager Empress. Tszo IIsl An, Dowager Empress of China and the most powerful woman in the world, is dead. The end of this remarkable woman, unrivaled in history, the autocratic head of government during more than half n century of nearly one-third of the world's population, came ut 2 o'clock Sunday after noon. That is the official announcement ! from the imperial palace whL-h follow- j cd the news less than twenty-four hours ' liefere of the death of the Emperor, j Kuang-IIsu. j With th' announcement of the end of the empress dowager's career of ex- ' travagance, cruelty and unbridled power came an official edict placing upon Mia throne of China Prince Pu-Yi, 3-yoar-old son of Prince Chun, regent of the empire. The dowager empress was "-t years of age, and in every one of the years since she was 17 were crowded startling events, thrills for the entire world in the years since 1SG1, and constant uneasiness among the millions in China. Though pronounced wicked, cruel, exPUWAGKR EMPRESS OF CHINA. travaant, indoiultabl-i. she had wisdom, sagacity and diplomacy which astounded all crowned and uncrowned leaders of mankind since her dominant authority began. Her political farcer began with the wholesale beheading of princes in 1801, by wJdcU she established her son on the tl rone. A slaughter of reformers and others took place thirty-seven years later, in 1SS. Two years after this she deliberately, upon advice, set alwut slaughtering all Christians niuLforclgners, giving 100,000 taels from her private funds toward carrying on the work. Her authority was complete over about 14,000 officials and over the welfare and lives of the vast majority of the inhabitants of China, who number dose to 270,000,000. PMycholoKjr of Woman' Drew. Prof. W. I. Thomas of the University of Chicago, continuing his series of arlitles on woman in the November American Magazine, takes a somewhat radical stand on the subject of dress. He asserts that the advances which modern life has made over savagery tre represented at pome points by a very thin line. Man in the pursuit of business has tended to give up the idea of bodily adornment aud carries on the world's industries largely to supply women with those personal accessories which they used to charm the men. Nevertheless, woman is "only a pawn In tho uJustrial same played by man," and tlu eflect of this on the character of wor.ian "Is altogether bad." Prof. Thomas J says that "the role of half angel aud half bird" is a pretty one if you can look at it that way, but "it denatures a woman, i.uies her a thing instead of a person, a tact of the environment and an object cf man's manipulation instead of an ag?at for trausf or niing the world. It leaves socic;y shorthand d and the struggle for lifa harder and uglier than it would be if woman operated in it ns the substantial and superior creature which nature made her." Fountain Fdiie won the all-aged handicap feature at Jamaica track. Tommy Iturns writes from Australia that after his battle with Jack Johnson he will retire from the ring. Marvin Hart was awarded the decision over Jack (Twin) Sullivan on a foul in the fifth round of their bout, scheduled for twelve rounds, iu Uoston. At the annual meeting of the Central Pascball Association Oskaloosa was voted out on account of poor patronage, and Calesburg, III., and Hannibal, Mo., made application for the place. "Cy" Young, the veteran pitcher of the Boston American League team, has furnished a room in the Union hospital at New Philadelphia, Ohio. This is in addition - to the $1,0(10 given the hospital as a result of a ball game played on "Cy Young day," a short time ago. Flushed with their 10 to O victory over Indiana, but indignant over what they consider a deliberate attempt to knock 'Quarterback Moll out of the game on account of his ability to kick field goals and run the team well, the Wisconsin university football team has retd3ied from Pdoomington, Ind. Minor Heir went a sensational first half at Aurora, 111., in his successful attempt to lower thff State record of 2:00 Vi, pacing the first quarter in :30l'i and the second quarter iu the same notch. From there on he tired and finished the mile in 2 :0.". Shattuck defeated her old rival, Carleton, by the decisive score of 10 to 4. These teams have met regularly for the past twenty-five years. Samuel II. Mellor, Jr., of the Mercury Athletic Club, Yonkers, finished first of 1G7 starters in the Marathon race at Newark, N. J. John J. Daly, the giant of Irish-American Athletic Club, finished second. Polo teams representing Pritish Columbia, Honolulu, llurlingame, England and Calgary are exicted to compete with the American teams for the all-American cup in the tourney to be held on March 20, 1000, at Coronado, Cal. New York race track managers and bettors are jubilant. According to the verdict handed down by magistrate Geismar of Prooklyn seven well-known members of the local betting rings are not guilty of bookmaking. The decision was based upon the fact that the accused men had not maintained bookmaking stands, but had walked about the grounds making bets with others, thus acting as lnth layers and backers of odds. That is held not bookmaking. Thomas Evans of the Utah Agricultural college, right guard of the college football eleven, whose neck was dislocated during a game with the Colorado school of mines, died without regaining consciousness.

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CHICAGO. The weekly review of Chicago trade published by It. G. Dun & Co. ays: "Largely increased payments through tho banks, rising security markets and improving demand fot money are important developments this week, and there is also more distinct evidence of recovery in trade. The leading industries now exhibit increasing activity, together with heavier movements of finished products a id commodities. "Graiu operations remain moderate by comparison with a year ago, but forwarding of flour is remarkably extended, and liberal arrivals of live stock enter into prompt absorption and permit increased packing. "A much better tone characterizes iron, wood and leather working lines. Prices of crude materials for factory conversion show more firmness, although new de mands are yet somewhat restricted and most buying, is confined to immediate needs. "Lumber dealings make a closer return to normal proportions, and there is exceptionally good request for planing mill outputs, plumbing and building materials. "Weather conditions generally were favorable to a wider demand for seasonable goods, and both city and country sales are making the expected progress. Christmas wares have been bought freely, and the wholesale lines obtain mail ordere for notable spring deliveries of dry goods, woolens, furniture, footwear and food products. "Money is quoted from 4 to 5 per cent. Deitosits exceed all previous aggregates and the hanks extend their efforts to secure desirable commercial paper. "Hank clearings, 230,Si3,KS. exceed those of the corresponding week in 1907 by 32JJ per cent, and compare with $218,24.VJST in 100U Failures reported in the Chicago district number 28, against 24 last week, 20 in 1007 and 27 in 1000. Those with liabilities over $.".000 number 10, against 7 last w-ek, 7 in 1007 and 11 in 100" NEW YORK. Expansion continues in trade and industrial lines, shipments over the railways are increasing, idleness is being diminished, prices in numerous lines are higher, collections are better, and sentiment is brighter than it has been for twelve months past. In many sections retailers stocks are badly broken, owing to conservative purchases heretofore made, and as a result requests for immediate shipments are quite the rule. Demand for holiday goods is increas ing. Practically every section, save the South, and where the supply of water has been insufficient for industrial operations, as, for instance, parts of New England, has shared in the genera! improvement. Ilusiuess failures in the United States for the week ending Nov. 12 number 207, against 2TC last week, 2.19 in the like week of 1007, 222 in 1900, 108 in 1005, and 190 in 1004. Business failures in Canada for the week number 22, which compares with S3 last week and 4." in this week last year. Bradstreet's Commer cial Report. l nicago Lattie, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.CÜ; hogs, prime heavy, $.00 to $0.17; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.7."; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04: corn, No. 2, C3c to Cc: oats, standard, 48c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c; hay, timothy, $S.00 to $14.00; prairie, $8.00 to $12.r0; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 20r; eggs, fresh, 20c to 28c; potatoes, per bushel, COc to 70c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.,"K) to $G.30; sheep, common to prime. $2.r0 to $3.73; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.0.1; corn, No. 2 white, Clc to (J2c; oats, No. 2 white. 40c to HOc. St. Louis Cattle, $4..X) to $7.50; hogs. $4.00 to $G.10; sheep. $1.00 to $1.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.XS; corn. No. 2, Gl c to 03c; oats, No. 2, 40c to "30c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 75c. Cincinnati Cattle, $.00 to $".35; hogs, $1.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $3.0." ; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07.; corn. No. 2 mixed, 03c to 01c; oafs. No. 2 mixed, Hie to 52c; rye, No. 2, 78c to SOc. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $."..V); hogs, $4.00 to $ö..ri0; sheep, $2..ri0 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.03; corn. No. 3 yellow,, Olc to C3c; oats. No. 3 white, rlc to T2c; rye. No. 2, 73c to "Go. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.00; corn, No. .3, 00c to 01c; oats, standard, 51c to 33c: rye. No. 1, 75c to 70c: barley, No. 1, 01c to 03c; Iork. mess, $14.02. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $J.00 to $0.75; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $t.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.50. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $f..S3; bogs. $3.30 to $5.00; sheep. $3.0f .to $1.00; wheat,, No. 2 red. $1.11 to $1.12; corn, No. 2, COc to 70c; oats, natural white, 53c to 5c; butter, creamery, 23c to "Oc; eggs, western, 20c to 33c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.02 to $1.01: corn, No. 2 mixed, 00c to Glc; oats. No. 2 mixed, -30c to 51c; rye. No. 77c to 78c; clover seed, $3.39. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. The steamer Kroonland and Finland, of fhe Bed Star line.-are in the future to fly the flag of Belgium. Commercial failures in the United States during October were 1,187 i;i nn-u ber and $15,&l8,00S in amount of default ed indebtedness, according to statistics compiled by It. G. Dun & Co. This is a slight increase in number as compared with the 1,130 defaults in the correspond ing month last year, but there is a strik ing reductiou in liabilities, which amount !o $27,414.900 in October, 1907. The English debenture holders of the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company of Minneapolis, which went into the hands of a receiver on Aug. IS, have appointed a committee to represent their interests and investigate the affairs of the company, Further action against the Battle Creek Breakfast Food Company, manufacturers ef Fgg-O-fcee, which was placed in the hands of a receiver at Quinvy, HI., was taken when a petition asking that it be adjudged a bankrupt was filed in the federal court in Chicago. John E. Linihan. secretary of the company, was appointed receiver. The debts amount to about $350,000. Some startling testimony was intro duced by Commissioner Iidd of North Dakota, at Fargo, in defense to action brought by millers of the State to prevent issuance of his bullet'n against 'bleached flour. It was testified that alcohol made from bleached flour would kill rabbits as result of ioIson left in flour by nitrates in bleaching process. It was -shown that alcohol made from unbleached flour would not kill rabbits, though twice as much was . administered as that made from bleached flour. Amount of alcohol used in tests for each rabbit was from amount of flour required for quarter loaf of bread, Testimony created something of a sensa tion.

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Thieves Break Into Vault in South Bend Posto3ce with Guards a Few Feet Away. The biggest robbery In the history of South Bend was pulled of Saturday night by robbers, who plundered the South Bend postofliee of $1S,053 and made such a successful getaway that postoffice inspectors and police are with-1 out a clew on which to conduct their investigation. The plunder was all stamps. The robbery was discovered at 8:30 o'clock- Snnrlnv mnmlni bv n clnrk In a building one door north of the room temporarily occupicu ior postomce pu.poscs during the erection of the new $100,000 building. The clerk baviug occation to enter the store found it im possible to open either entrance to which he had keys, and suspecting that something was wrong, called Patrolman Parker. Throwing their weight against the doors, they forced an entrance, and examination showed that they had been fastened by large screw hooks. A hole 14x14 Inches had been electri cally drilled through the fourtcen-iuch fireproof wall, forming one side of the Mstoffice wult, through which one of the robbers had entered and passed the plunder to bis confederates. That the robbery was committed by experts Is shown by precautions used to prevent discovery, and that the in;n worked ho skillfully that the night lorce of mailing clerks within 100 feet bf the vault had no knowledge of what was taking place. Before beginning operations on tbe wall the robbers covered the floor and stairway with scores of blankets and quilts takn from pie stock of the store, and also hung a thick quilt on the north wall of the vault under which the drill ing was done. As the bricks "were loosened they were pulled out of the drlllex's way by means of a small tackle and pulley, which was left be hind. Marking in tbe dust of the stair way showed that a lookout was stationed in a position which would give him a full view of the street through the big windows In front of the store. The roundabout method taken to get within reach of the vault shows that the plan of the bullding lud been carefully studied for weeks. At no time during the night was the postoffice unguarded, two clerks being in the mailing and sorting room. The electric drill used by the robbers was worked by power taken from lighting wires less than twenty feet from the wall, the wires being detached from a desk lamp in the office of the House hold company. The drills, picks and other tools, all new, and a bottleof nitroglycerin, which was probably to be used In case a steel lining to the vault was found, were all left behind. ' GRIDIRON'S 1903 TOLL. "Debrntalized" Football Continues Appalling Record of Fatalities "Debnitalizcd" football has been as brutal as ever in the season of 190S. The toll In gridiron warfare between colleges, high schools and athletic clubs is ten dead and 290 Injured. .The adoption of a more open scheme of play has failed for the third seasou to realize the hopes of the supporters of the game that a cloaner record could be shown. Fatalities have been reduced to no ap preciable extent and more players have been Injured thus far than were hurt In the season of 1003, when the availing record prompted coaches and college heads to revise the rules. In the record-breaking year preceding the revision of the game, twrmtyfour players were killed and 200 injured. Although the number of dead this season is not as large as In l'Ju3, ninety more mishaps than were re-pcA-ted In that year already have been recorded, and it Is considered probable that before tho final games are played the total of injured will fcurpass the record of 1904, when 29G players were on the hospital lists. The record of football deaths and serious injury for eight years beginning in 1901, is: lXad, 113; injured, 1.355. The record for BK)S is summarized as follows: . Total deaths 10 Total injured .290 College players. killed r;... 3 High school players killed 2 A tli le tic members killed.....' 5 College players injured 100 High school players injured 77 Athletic members injured 47 The record of killed and injured in tho eight years since 1901 is given below : " . - . ' Year. Deaths. Inj'd. Year. Deaths. Inj'd. 1001 7 74 1005 24 200 1902.... 13 10G 1903.... 14 1G0 15)03 14 C3 1907 15 100 1901 . . . .14 200 1903... . 10 290 NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS. Kansas had C.000,000 acres of wheat this year. The crop was generally good. Washington State had the biggest crop of apples, peaches and pears that it has ever produced. There are about C.OOO.OOO farms in the United States. Every third farm is occupied by a renter. Kalamazoo, Mich., the great celjy section, had the largest crop of that vegetable that has ever been raised there. Leo Kelby of St. Taul has an apple tree that has bloomed a second time this year after producing a crop of apples. Last year the dairy products of the country alone were worth nearly $S0O,000,000, much more than any other crop except corn. It is estimated that through lax and impjppcr methods in the handling of milk and cream a loss of over $3,000,000 results annually The short course for adults at the Minnesota school of agriculture will open Jan. 15. Tbe Duluth Commercial Club and the Dulcvh and Iron Range railroad will each pay the expenses of a representative of the leading farmers clubs in St. Louis county to study improved methods of agriculture. In Brookings, S. D., an incendiary is at large. John Welsh was the first victim, , losing his house, barn and granary, with all their contents. Next day the fiend set fire to the buildings of Henry Pottratz, who lost his all. A number of isolated straw piles and hay stacks have been mysteriously fired. At a recent meeting in Kansas City $50,000 were -appropriated by the AmerU can Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association to advance the interests of that particular breed of animals in the United States. The meeting closed its session with the election of the following named officers: W. S. Cargill. La Crosse," Vi8., president; Overton Harris, Harris, Mo., vice president; Walter B. Vrddell, Lexington, Mo., treasurer. Forest fires are again springing up and doing damage throughout the timber regions of .Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. Bridges have been burned and considerable damage is being done to farm land and the growing timber.

Many matters of iniiKrtanec were left undone or undecided when the first sessiou of the present Congress closed last summer. They remain on the calandar of unfinished business n either the House or tire Senate, and may be canea up ior consiaoration wnen tne two branches of the national legisla'ture meet. Of wide interest are the proposed amendments to the Interstate commerce law, intended to glre k- the states Jurisdiction over liquors shipped within their boundaries.' Tbe object of the legislation sought Js to keep lljj. uor out of prohibition States by are-strlction-upon the commerce anion the States. The attitude of some Con&i-esg-Ilfl'Il IUI milllltl'l ilS .1 11 ISOLaG A4J the Congressional legislation, aud bad an influence on the vote cast in their districts. Bills amending Hie anti-trust law in the Interest of necessary and Justifiable combinations of capital, and bills restricting the courts iu the issue of injunction orders for the benefit of employes of labor, remain unreported in the House Judiciary Committee. The question of the admission free of doty of certain products of thft Philippine Islands has been postponed again and again, and is, still undecided. Friends of all these measures will, strive to get some action on them. oMrcovcr, there is the proposition to establish a postal savings-bank system," which both parties favor in their national platores. The chief work, however, which will be accomplished in this short session which will end at noon on March I, ' when the new President will take office will bo the passage of the annual appropriation bills. There will ls time for little else, and If any other bills of national iniiortance are passed. It will be by reasöu of tbe wide public demand for them. -: :- . The Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Avashlngton has completed designs suggested by Tostmaster General Meyer for a new Issue of United States postage stamps. The new Issue has been designed with the object of obtaining the greatest simplicity " commensurate with artistic results. AH the stamps are of a similar design, containing a head in an ellipse, the only decoration being laurel leaves on either side of the ellipse. ;The lettering Is In straight lines, at the top being U. S. Postage" and at the bottom the words Two Cents. The one-cent stamp contains the head of Franklin, while all the others will bear that of Washington, taken from busts by Houdon. The colors a're the reds and blues of the early stamps. :- The Navy Department has decided for reasons of economy to have a coat of slate-gray paint put on all battle ships as fast as they arereceived at Ihe docks for repairs. The first ship o receive the new coat is the Maine, which has Just returned from a cruise around the worhl and is now In the Potsmouth Navy Yard. Both the Pacific and Atlantic fleets will thus be treated when they turn to the Atlantic Coast yards for repairs. Besides re3uclns the paint bills, tbe gray Is leemed a better color than the white because not so conspicuous under searchlight. Declaring that complaints continue to come to the department alleging vio lation of the postal regulations con cerning the disposition of regstered mail Indorsed fur delivery to the addresses In person," Ian order has lieen issued by Third Assistant Postmaster General Lawshe directing that such mail must be delivered to no one but Ihe addressee In person, not even upon his written order. Free passes may be isxued to bona fide ex-emploves of a railroad who are traveling to re-enter the railroad's ser vice. Passes cannot be extended t the families of employes who died a natural tleoth while Iu the service of comaion carlers, though that privilege Is irftl'llt"ll 111 lilt" 1 illlLllilT J. frAlliV 1 illled In the service, rules tha Internate Commerce Commission. The civil service commission has decided that there was no foundation for :he charges that customs inspectors of Vow York were compelled to see a Mr. Plummer in the office of Treasurer Sheldon, of the Republican national lommltteo, nt 2 Wall street, and there xmtrlbute $25 each. Amlwssador Takahlra, of Japan, has lelivered to President Roosevelt a message from the Japanese emperor thanking the President for bis message of good will and expressing his delight that the American people were pleased with the reception to the fleet In Japan. x The Department of Agriculture has. Issued a preliminary estimate of tb production of the principal crops of the United States, showing that corn, wheat, oats and eight other crops, representing approximately 70 per cent of the value of all farm products, this fear aggregate about 3 per cent greater than a year ago, and 2.4 per cent greater than the average for the last five years. : :- Rear Admiral Arthur Rurtls, United States Navy, retired, died at his apartments in a hotel In Buffalo, N. Y. He was born In 1S41 and joined the narj in 1S02 as assistant paymaster. He was retired In 1903, with the rank of rear admiral. Ecuador has ratified a sanitary contention with Panama, looking to prevention of communication of diseases letween the two countries, according to a dispatch received at the State Department from American Minister Fox at Quluto. The Iwues of Gen. James McCnbblr T.ingan. jersonal friend of Gen. George Washington and a hero of the Revolutlonary war, who died In 1S12, have been exhumed from the private burying grouixi in wuicu tuey uave reposea ior almost a century, and were rclnterred in Arlington National Cemetery. In his annual report Commissioner Dennett urges that all public lands not now included in irrigation projects, but capable of Irrigatloa, be withdrawn from entry until they can be Irrlici